Apparatus for disposal of garbage.



A. E. D'UMAS. APPARATUS FOR DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 5} 1 908.

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FKQEO ALFRED E. DUMAS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 5, 1908.

Patented June 8, 1909.

Serial No. 456,241.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED E. DUMAS, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatuses for the Disposal of Garbage, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus, more especiallyfor use in apartment houses having several stories, and with a view tothe maintenance of sanitary conditions.

The apparatus comprises a vertical garbage conduit of comparativelylarge diameter and of sheet metal or other suitable material arranged toextend vertically crosswise relatively to several floors of a buildingand having openings leading thereinto at the respective floors, withmovable closures for said openings, an enlarged inclosed chamber inconnection with the lower portion of said conduit having a door forclosing and open-. ing at one side thereof, a receptacle supported insaid chamber for receiving the more solid and bulky garbage substances,and a waste pipe leading from said enlarged chamber, usually to thesewer; and the apparatus furthermore includes means for water-flushingthe vertical garbage conduit as well as other internal parts of theapparatus.

The apparatus includes other provisions, constructions and arrangementsfor advantages hereinafter rendered apparent. And the invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, is described in conjunctiontherewith, and is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus'shown asarranged for use at the rear of an apartment house. Fig. 2 is a planview of an enlarged chamber located at the lower portion of the garbageconduit; Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on line 33, Fig. 2; Fig. 4is a perspective view of a garbage receptacle removably contained in theenlarged chamber; Fig. 5 is a plan view and parts in horizontal sectionas taken on line 55, Figs. 1 and 6, while Fig. 6 is'a substantiallyvertical section as taken on line 6-6, Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a partialvertical section as taken on line 77, Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 is a horizontalcross section as seen on the line 8-8 of Fig. 6, looking upward.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all ofthe views.

A represents the conduit extending vertically crosswise relative toseveral floors ac of a building having openings (1 leading thereintoadjacent the respective floors whereby garbage at any fioor may be castinto the vertical .conduit to descend therein into a chamberedenlargement C near the bottom of the building which chamberedenlargement may advantageously be of rectangular form, as represented inFigs. 2 and 3, having its bottom downwardly convergent and in opencommunication with a waste pipe I) which connects with a sewer pipe orsoil pipe d. The said enlarged chamber C is open at one side and has ahinged. or otherwise movable door C thereat for closing it. The saidchambered casing C has at opposite sides near its lower portion rests orledges e for supporting, and permitting to slide thereon, a deep pan orgarbage receptacle having its bottom made of screening or otherwiseforaminous, as indicated atf.

G represents a gate horizontally slidable above, and closely in relationto, the top of the garbage receptacleC,its supporting en gagement beingon angular ledges or'rests c and this gate or guard may be drawnoutwardly, partially, through the side opening of the enlarged casingwhen the door C is opened; and when so drawn out its imperforate innerend portion 9 has its location directly under the lower end of thegarbage conduit, A, which is connected with and opens throughsubstantially the middle portion of the top of the casing C but when thegate G is inwardly slid to its normal position, as shown in Fig. 3, thecentral aperture 9 therethrough leaves the passage unobstructed topermit the garbage coming down the conduit to fall into the receptacleD.

it represents an annular wall secured to and depending below the topwall of the chamber C, the same having a diameter somewhat larger thanthat of the garbage conduit; and this annular wall is preferably madedownwardly convergent, and forms a pocket when. the gate is partiallydrawn out, within which garbage thrown down from above,wh1le thereceptacle D is being removed and replaced,may be confined and preventedfrom spreading or banking up on the gate at points remote from itscenter, or falling over the edge of the gate to pass to the waste pipe.

The garbage conduit A at its portions adjacent the respective floorswhereat the garbage entering openings at aforementioned,

are provided, is made with transversely widened enlargements havingtheir bottoms downwardly and inwardly inclined toward the conduit properwhereby they are of hepper or chute shape, these enlargements inaddition to having side and inclined bottom walls also, have for each, atop wall i, which, however, only partially covers the hopper shapedenlargement,the remainder thereof being closed by the cover B which ishinged at its inner edge and is provided with a horn or lug j tocontribute as a part of valve operating means for the flushing, shortlyto be further pointed out.

The garbage conduit has flushing pipes J extending around substantiallyhorizontally in the portions thereof which are provided with and includethe hopper enlargements.

E represents a water supply pipe vertically arranged in any suitableproximity to the garbage conduit and having, by connection branches, 7c,water supplying communication with service tank F which respectivelyrests upon the removable top walls i of the hopper enlargement.

Each service tank is intermediatcly in its height divided by anapertured partition m resting on which is a valve disk n, the stem 0 ofwhich extends downwardly axially within the lower portion of the servicetank through a bushing therefor in the top wall t, and has a dependingprotrusion for a short distance below the atoresaid wall "L.

g represents a lever intermediately pivoted on a bracket therefor withinthe hopper shaped enlargement, the inner end thereof having a stud andslot engagement, as represented in Fig. 6, with the lower protruding endof the valve stem, while its other extremity has a stud and slotengagement with the short thrust rod which is suitably vertically guidedand the upper end of which is in cooperative relation to theaforementioned lug j 011 the cover 6 The upper halves of the cylindersin which the service tanks are comprised will be normally filled withwater, while the lower half will be normally empty.

Concurrently with the lii'ting of any one of the covers B to enable aperson to throw garbage into the hopper to thence pass'dewn the conduit,the cover lug j by its engagcment with the thrust rod t swings the leverQ and upwardly forces the valve disk through its stem away from its seaton the apertured partition m establishing a descent of water into thelower chamber of the cylinder and from the latter by way of the shortconnection pipes 12 o, shown in Figs. 7 and 8, to the flushing pipe orchannel J, the water issuing through jet holes for rinsing the interiorof the conduit and the hopper like enlarge ments thereof.

Fluid or semi-fluid portions of the garbage together with the water usedfor flushing the apparatus descending into the screen bottomedreceptacle D will pass through the latter to the waste pipe, while thesubstantially solid and bulky portions ol the garbage will beaccumulated in the rece 'itacle, to be removed, by withdrawing thelatter l'rom within the large chamber as often as occasion therefor mayrequire.

I claim 1. In an apparatus ol' the character described, a verticalgarbage conduit having openings leading thereinto at arious places inits height, and movable closures tor said openings, an enlargedrectangular chamber into a substantiallymiddleportion ol the top ofwhich the lower end of the garbage conduit con'nnunicates, said enlargedrectangular chamber having a waste pipe leading from its bottom, andhaving an opening at one side of approximately the area ol such side,with. a movable door for closing said opening, and said enlarged chamberhaving opposite horizontal ledges near its lower portion, and arectangular receptacle, provided with a 'l'oran'iinous bottom, and ol asize to nearly'lill said enlarged chamber, supported on said ledges andhorizontally removable through said opening.

2. In an apparatus of the cluiractm described, a conduit extendingvertically cross- 7 wise relative to a floor of a building having anopening leading tliereinto adjacent such floor, and a movable closurefor said opening, a source of water supply, a connection between suchsource and said conduit, havin .2 valve, and means actuated by the saidmovable closure i'or operating said valve.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbageconduit. having transversely widened hopper shaped enlargements andhinged covers for the open tops thereof, a water supply pipe, servicetanks connected with the water supply pipe and located above andadjacent each hopper shaped enlargement and having valved meanscommunicating with the interior of such enlargement, and devicesactuated by the movement oi each hopper cover and operating the valve oieach service tank.

' 4. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbageconduit having openings adjacent the respective floors of a building andmovable covers for said open ings, flushing channels extending aroundsubstantially horizontally in the conduit ad jacent said openings,service tanks appurtenant to each flushing channel and having pipeconnection therewith, means for supplying water thereinto, valves forcontrolling the delivery of water therefrom to said llushing channels,and means operated by said covers and operating the service tank valves.

5. In an apparatus of the character de scribed, a vertical garbageconduit having transversely widened hopper shaped enlargelUt ments,adjacent the respective floors of a building, made with top openings,and movable covers for said openings, flushing pipes extending aroundsubstantially horizontally in the hopper-provided portions of theconduit, service-tanks above and adjacent each of the enlarged portionsof the conduit having water supplying means therefor and having outletconnections with the flushing pipes, valves in the service-tanks forcontrolling the delivery of water therefrom to the flushing pipes, andmeans, with which the hopper covers coact, for operating the servicetank valves.

6. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbageconduit having a transversely widened hopper shaped enlargement, madewith a top 0 ening, and a movable hinged cover for sai opening, aflushing pipe extending around substantially horizontally in the conduitand in the hopper-provided portionthereof, a service-tank above andadjacent the enlarged portion of the conduit, having water supplyingmeans therefor, and having outlet connections with the flushing pipe, avalve in the service-tank for controlling the delivery of watertherefrom to the flushing pipe, having a vertical stem depending withinthe space in the hopper enlargement, and an intermediately pivotedlever, one extremity of which has an operating engagement with the valvestem, while the other extremity thereof is in a coacting relation tosaid cover lug.

7. In an apparatus for disposal of garbage, a conduit extendingvertically crosswise relative to several floors of a building havingopenings leading thereinto at the respective floors and movable closuresfor said openings,

an enlarged inclosed chamber in connection with a lower portion of saidconduit having a door, a receptacle supported in and trans verselyremovable from said chamber, a waste conduit leading from a lowerportion of said enlarged chamber, and a gate above the place of occuancy of the receptacle, llOIlzontally movab e and operative to preventsolid and bulky substances from passing to the waste conduit.

8. In an apparatus of the character described, a vertical garbageconduit having openings leading thereinto at various places in itsheight and movable closures for sald openings, an enlarged chamberthrough a substantially middle portion of which the lower end of thegarbage conduit communicates, and said enlarged chamber having a wastepipe leading from its bottom and having a movable door at one side,opposite hor1- zontal ledges near its lower portion and a receptaclehaving a foraminous bottom supported on said ledges and horizontallyremovable, a gate horizontally slidable above the location of thereceptacle, adapted in its normal position to leave free passage fromthe garbage conduit to the receptacle when moved to temporarily preventsubstances from downwardly passing by the gate, and an annular wallsecured to and depending below the top wall of the enlarged chamberhaving a diameter larger than that of the garbage conduit.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

ALFRED E. DUMAS.

Witnesses:

ALFRED J. PHANEUF, WM. S. BELLows.

